Segner (moon crater)

Blessing
Segner ( LROC -WAC)
position	58.99 °  S , 48.68 °  W Coordinates: 58 ° 59 '24 "  S , 48 ° 40' 48"  W.
diameter	68 km
depth	1500 m
Card sheet	125 (PDF)
Named after	Johann Andreas von Segner (1704–1777)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Segner is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , immediately northeast of the Zucchius crater , which overlays the southwestern edge of Segner and whose ejecta cover the otherwise largely flat ground of Segner. The crater rim is heavily eroded.

List of Segner's minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	57.26 °  S , 47.03 °  W	9 km	[1]
B.	57.74 °  S , 55.94 °  W	33 km	[2]
C.	57.79 °  S , 46.24 °  W	19 km	[3]
E.	57.48 °  S , 56.97 °  W	12 km	[4]
G	56.4 °  S , 55.21 °  W	22 km	[5]
H	58.61 °  S , 48.61 °  W	7 km	[6]
K	56.17 °  S , 54.46 °  W	7 km	[7]
L.	58.74 °  S , 47.31 °  W	6 km	[8th]
M.	59.75 °  S , 45.51 °  W	5 km	[9]
N	59.32 °  S , 44.73 °  W	5 km	[10]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physicist and mathematician Johann Andreas von Segner .

Web links

• Segner in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Segner on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .